Re: How do any of you do it?

Sam posted:

"Killfiles really help... I think it has been interesting of late to
ferret out that some of the trolls don't understand simple concepts
like "velocity" and "symmetry" and yet the have their own "better"
versions of "relativity". Killfiles really help."

Sam, I respectfully have to disagree with that. Killfiles only provide
filtration, no substance. If after you use you killfile, nothing worth
reading remains, then as they say: "You can't get blood out a rock".

Sci.physics begain to to to Hell in a handbag arguably more than 5
years ago. First readers accused AOL as being the source of most of the
Kook posts, then Webtv, then with the explosive growth of the ISP
industry and Al Gore was cheering on the notion that EVERYONE was
entitled to use the Internet, things here disintegrated rather swiftly.
You've been around here long enough to recall that time when one by one
all of the sci.physics regulars threw up their hands and stopped
posting. Remember Jim Carr, Matti Meron, Uncle Al, and the others...now
all gone. (Although Matti does post at irregular intervals.) I
remember the when anyone no posting from an .edu, .mil, or .gov domain
was regarded with suspicion or looked down upon, and the newsgroup was
so intense that even some physicists were intimidated to post here. All
that has now changed, but not for the better.

Between the Kooks and the people posting about cosmology and
speculative theory based on reading coffee table books, there are
probably less than 3-post/week addressing actual physics and posted by
individuals who have completed a course at the level of even Physics
101, but when a question, problem or a seed for a discussion is posted,
the chances are minimal that it will today receive an informed,
thoughful response except from one of the increasingly rare serious
posters, like youself...and posters like you are becoming increasingly
rare.

That's why I read this newsgroup only once a month or so, rahter than
on a daily basis which was the case.

In response to JLH, there is (or was) a moderated physics newsgroup
called sci.physics.research moderated by Jon Bell, but that too had
some problems but nothing like this place. Maybe worth a quick look.

Kindest regards, Harry C.

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